[Dovecot] 1.2.3 - fchown failed messages

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:31 -0400, Rob Mangiafico wrote:
> Aug  4 19:10:10 rezclick dovecot: IMAP(john): 
> fchown(/home/john/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.tmp, -1, 12(mail)) failed: 
> Operation not permitted (egid=509(johngrp), group based on 
> /var/spool/mail/john)
> ---
> 
> /var/spool/mail/john has a group of "mail", whereas the home directory has 
> their own "group". In 1.1.x we did not get these errors. Is this a fix in 
> 1.2? I assume we have to make the group match from their home dir and 
> /var/spool/mail to get rid of the error? Any downside to allowing this 
> error to continue? Thanks.

What permissions does /var/spool/mail/john have? I guess mail group has
read permissions? Just removing that should fix the error.

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